Promoting hubs with odd topics

I have a few published hubs and a few in the workds that I believe are well written and interesting to read, but I can't see many people finding them through google, what are some other good ways besides spaming links to promote it?

This one of the hubs I was talking about- <snipped link - people can visit your profile to view your hubs>

Yeah I get that, I was simply posting the link to the hub so people could see what i was talking about. I get that the forums in Hubpages is not the greatest source of traffic, I didn't even think some one would see it that way.It's a weird topic, so I wanted to know if any one has had success promoting a hub like that or of that nature?

If you want advice on your Hub, please post a link to it on the "Extreme Hub Makeover" Forum. Hub links posted in any other Forum may be considered excessive self-promotion, and the links could get snipped.

For promotion and money-making tips, you can start by clicking on "Help" at the top right-hand corner of this page, then scroll down for a bunch of links on money-making. The "sticky pink thread," or FAQs, also offers some good advice.

More discussions on promotions and money can be found by doing a search in this Forum ("Knowledge Exchange"), and the "Need Help? Ask Here" Forum.

I didn't want advice on my hub, I wanted advice on where I should spend my time promoting the particular hub that i linked to. I did not want general advice about promoting, I wanted advice on that particular hub, thus why I linked to it.

Again people in here telling me not to link, are peopl I have seen link in many other hubs. So I am not sure if there is a "mob reasoning" going here, but relaly you guys chill out.

The hub in question is a topic that usually remains in relative obscurity for most people. I was looking for other members who have writen on topics that were random and appealed to a small audience, who had success promoting such ecclectic hubs.

I have done quite well with the rest of my hubs, 7 out of my 12 hubs are first pagers, I get on how to promote, but with odd topic hubs, how would you promote it without posting links every where. I find it weird that I am getting flammed for some thing I stated I was not trying to do in the first place, I said I did not "spam" my link every where, and some how that's how it's being labled.

If you call this "getting flamed", you have a lot to learn about public forums yet You were getting politely reminded about the rules of the place, that you broke by your actions, even if you did not intend to.

Thanx Mark, I know not many people are going to want to read it, I didn't think it had much of an audience to begin with, I was looking for advice like yours, seeing if there were any communities that had weird taste.

It may not have much interest now, but you might be surprised to find later on search traffic will find your Hub and be interested in it. I have a keen interesting in Pacific Islands and Pacific history, so I wrote a Hub about the turmoil in Nauru that was mostly geared towards people who shared a fascination with this topic, and not many people have I found out. I only had about sixty or so people visit this hub since I published it a few months ago, and most of these were from a group interested in Pacific Island history. Then one day to my delighted surprise a lady that used to live on Nauru came by and shared her story with me, which was well worth the wait even if this hub is not the highest searched for topic.

I wasn't flaming you... but I did want to expand on what Misha was saying, because it looked like your link might get snipped, and it was only fair you should know why.

Sure enough, it did get snipped (through no doing of my own, I assure you).

I'm still too new to feel like any kind of expert on Google listings, but I do understand that Hubs and pages on unusual topics can do very well, if only because they're not competing with 50 million other pages on the same topic.

Others (actually, almost anyone else) can explain how best to promote your Hubs better than I can.

*from the rules*Promoting other sites: This includes linking to any site that you have a vested interest in promoting, especially using affiliate links. To be on safe side we recommend that you establish a presence in the HubPages community before you post any links in the forum.

where does it say that I can't link to one of my hubs?

How again did I break a rule?

Since you're policing the forums, I suggest you add an ammendment to the first clause.

I was trying to extend you a courtesy, because I too have been new and have unintentionally broken a rule or two. And each time I did, a Hubber extended me the same courtesy I tried to extend to you. (Sincere thanks to all you helpful Hubbers!)

One last bit of advice, then I'm done: If you believe the rules should be changed, you could post your proposed change on the "Report a Problem or Suggest a New Feature" Forum. Hub Pages staffers do read that forum regularly, plus you'll get community feedback on your proposed change.

Yes. But you need to look at who is saying what. Look at their hubs. Look at how many forum posts they have made, what their hubscore is etc.

I understand that you cannot see the difference between you starting a thread with a link and me adding a link to an already started thread, but that is really because you haven't taken the trouble to feel around how hubpages works and see just how many threads get started with the words,

"So, I am a new hubber, tell me how to get traffic to my new hub." LINK

They even recently started a new forum just for those to be posted, but you chose not to use that.

Interact a little with everyone, and you will soon discover every one will come and check out your hub. You will get all the advice you need with a little patience.

LOL nobody is hot here, except for weblog's avatar, so no need to chill

Mark already told you two reasons why him posting link on this thread is considered OK, and yours - not. I can just re-iterate them.

1. He did not start the thread, and he was giving an example to illustrate his words. You did start, and posted the link in the very first post.2. He is a respected community member here. You - we don't know yet. You do not seem to be a spammer, and that's why we are all spending our time here explaining the rules. If we saw you were an obvious spammer, nobody would have been talking to you here, and your account probably was already gone.

This is the way communities work, whether you like it or not.

The reason for this rule is that we saw quite a few spammers DAILY littering the forums with the links to their hubs. So we had to adopt this rule to make this environment pleasant for us. And for you, too, once you understand the rules and start participating actively.

For whatever it's worth, my two best traffic hubs are totally random, satire hubs and I didn't promote them at all, one of which is at 300 comments so far, and both hit a thousand page views in well under a month. The best of them is even about a poop company for crying out loud. So, just write intersting (or crappy lol) content and, if it's as good as you say, people will show up for it.

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